In the path of the moon [electronic resource] : Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy / by Francesca Rochberg.
by
Rochberg, Francesca, 1952-
ISBN
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9789004189614
9789004183896
Title
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In the path of the moon [electronic resource] : Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy / by Francesca Rochberg.
Author
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Rochberg, Francesca, 1952-
Personal Author
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Rochberg, Francesca, 1952-
Publication Information
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (xxii, 445 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Series
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Studies in ancient magic and divination, v. 6
Contents
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Fate and divination in Mesopotamia -- New evidence for the history of astrology -- Canonicity in cuneiform texts -- The assumed 29th aḫû tablet of Enūma Anu Enlil -- TCL 6 13 : mixed traditions in late Babylonian astrology -- Benefic and malefic planets in Babylonian astrology -- Elements of the Babylonian contribution to Hellenistic astrology -- Babylonian seasonal hours -- Babylonian horoscopy : the texts and their relations -- Continuity and change in omen literature -- The Babylonian origins of the Mandaean book of the zodiac -- Scribes and scholars : the ṭupšar Enūma Anu Enlil -- Lunar data in Babylonian horoscopes -- A Babylonian rising times scheme in non-tabular astronomical texts -- Old Babylonian celestial divination -- The heavens and the gods in ancient Mesopotamia : the view from a polytheistic cosmology -- A short history of the waters above the firmament -- Periodicities and period relations in Babylonian celestial sciences -- Conditionals, inference, and possibility in ancient Mesopotamian science -- "If P, then Q" : form and reasoning in Babylonian divination -- Divine causality and Babylonian divination.
Local Note
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eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subject Term
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Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian.
Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian.
Omens -- Iraq -- Babylonia.
Horoscopes -- Iraq -- Babylonia.
Akkadian language -- Texts.
Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Science -- Greece -- History.
Science -- Rome -- History.
Format
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Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
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Publication Date
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2010
Publication Information
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
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133.59235 22 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |